Coping with coopetition—Facing dilemmas in cooperation for sustainable development: The case of the Dutch smart grid industry

This paper is amongst the first to examine coopetition strategy for sustainable development at the network level. Companies who want to successfully implement complex innovative technologies that support sustainable development need to collaborate with other actors of the innovation ecosystem, including their competitors, so that they can develop standards, interoperable products, pool knowledge, and resources and bundle forces to compete against other technologies. Collaboration with competitors brings benefits, but also many risks. We investigated how firms cope with these risks when establishing an innovation ecosystem to implement a new technology in society. We conducted research in the Dutch smart grids sector and explored how these firms minimize inherent risks of coopetition. We found that system‐building actors in the Dutch smart grid field not only minimize inherent risks, but from the start of their collaboration they implement so‐called enablers to prevent these risks upfront.     

Intended destination image positioning at sub-provincial administration level in China

Tourism development is officially recognized by the Chinese central government as one of the strategic pillars of the country's economy. Hence, regional authorities are responsible for developing positioning strategies for their tourism destinations. This study investigates the following: (1) the variety of planned image positions among sub-provincial prefectures in China; (2) the commonalities of these image propositions across China and (3) the differences within and across the regions and provinces. This research is based on a representative sample of tourism development plans of 77 prefectural administrations. The texts (in Chinese language) were content analyzed and condensed in two steps into semantically similar terms and concepts. The results show that image-positioning objectives are generally lean in the planning documents lacking sophistication and creativity. The variety of used image terms tempts to believe in quite different positioning goals. Yet, from a compound perspective, this does not yield very distinct overall image positions.     

Platform coopetition in the tourism industry: conflicts and tensions caused by the closure of Booking.com in Turkey

In March 2017, as a result of a precautionary interim decision made by the courts based on the case relating to ‘unfair competition practices’, Booking.com closed its platform for inbound tourism in Turkey and ceased operations. This was the first instance of an online booking platform halting access for inbound bookings for the domestic market. This platform-based relationship involves both cooperation and competition, and thus this paper identifies this relationship as platform coopetition. Based on the governance network theory and employing a case-study approach, the Booking.com case is examined from the viewpoint of tourism coopetition from two perspectives: industry-wide and agent-specific. The paper provides an analysis of these perspectives and the past and on-going process of Booking.com’s platform closure. The constitutive dynamics this case endangers the coopetitive environment of the tourism industry and thus creates destructive uncertainties, especially for small hotels. This analysis also reveals the issues in terms of political representation for digital service platform companies.     

租金视角下供应链竞合的价值创造途径

供应链成员关系的本质是竞争与合作并存,其目的是价值创造,不同内涵的租的创造与保持构成了供应链价值创造活动的主要内容和目的.文章运用租金理论分析了供应链‘价值创造的途径,提出供应链是通过构筑进入壁垒获取张伯伦租、通过知识传递与知识创造获取熊彼特租、通过培育核心资源获取理查德租以及通过资源的互补效应与集束效应获取准租来进行价值创造的,而这种价值创造是通过竞争与合作共同实现的.     

Mode coopétition dans un cluster culturel? Le cas du secteur circassien montréalais

We explore the relevance of the « coopetition » concept within Montreal's circus sector and the Montréal Complètement Cirque festival in particular. Our analysis is based on the cluster phenomena found in coopetition studies, which is a strategy used by companies in the technology sector. We formulate propositions that suggest these collaborative practices allow reduce tensions related to the innovation and creative processes' intrinsic uncertainty and also moderate the effects of a firms' limited resources. These practices are also related to public policies aimed at ensuring the sector's sustainability, the existence of interpersonal relations, and the need for more visibility on the sector and its actors. Copyright © 2017 ASAC. Published by John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

论优质猪肉供应链合作伙伴间的竞合关系

实施供应链管理是解决目前我国猪肉质量安全问题的有效途径,合作伙伴间有效的合作与竞争是优质猪肉供应链生存与发展的关键。论文论述了优质猪肉供应链中养猪场、生猪屠宰加工企业和超市之间合作的动机、内容与方式以及竞争的内容、根源与作用,提出了有效竞合的理念和状态。     

不同竞合关系与企业创新选择互动演化研究

通过分析企业间的四种竞合关系如何影响企业开展渐进创新和突变创新,本文提出了基于不同创新选择的企业间两种竞合关系的构建策略。研究结果表明:孤立型的竞合关系使得企业更倾向于渐进创新而不是突变创新;斗争型的竞合关系使得企业更倾向于渐进创新而不是突变创新;伙伴型的竞合关系使得企业更倾向于突变创新而不是渐进创新;适应型的竞合关系使得企业更倾向于突变创新而不是渐进创新,同时专注于渐进创新的企业应当构建有利的竞争主导型的企业间竞合关系;专注于突变创新的企业应当通过构建有利的合作主导型的企业间竞合关系。     

竞合战略：超竞争环境下企业竞争战略调适的理性选择

竞合战略因具有获取规模经济效益、降低交易成本、产生协同效应、形成创新氛围等竞争优势,成为超竞争环境下企业竞争战略调适的理性选择。竞合战略的实施有赖于来自企业内部和外部多种因素的影响。我国企业要积极进行竞争战略调适,重视竞合战略的实践运用。     

产业边界漂移：信息产业合作竞争中的产业融合

产业融合是信息时代产业发展的特殊现象,是信息化进程中的新型产业发展形态。产业边界漂移是产业融合的重要标志。运用自组织理论、耗散结构理论和系统经济学观点,文章剖析了产业边界漂移的动因;在此基础上,从技术融合、业务融合等角度探讨了信息产业合作竞争过程中的产业融合现象;最后,文章指出建立在IPTV技术基础上的网络电视／网络广播是推进产业融合的重要途径。     

Does size matter for port coopetition strategy? Concept,motivation and implication

Coopetition is one of the emerging strategies for ports to react towards the rapidly changing market environment. Having this strategy in action, ports will simultaneously compete and cooperate to achieve commonly interesting goals among players involved. Several ports in the Hamburg–Le Havre range have already decided to use such coopetitive strategies. The literature, however, shows that there exist a number of case-specific motivations for having employed this strategy. The aim of this paper is to investigate the motivations for the ports of Flanders (Antwerp, Zeebrugge, Ghent and Ostend) to choose coopetition. These four Flemish ports recently agreed to collaborate after several years of negotiations. It was known that the large port of Antwerp was more reluctant to collaborate with the smaller ports: Zeebrugge, Ghent and Ostend. This fact does naturally lead us to consider whether the size of port is a factor having an impact on the coopetitive strategy. The current paper attempts to examine the possible impact of size difference on the motivations for ports to opt for coopetition, within a framework of coopetition motivations based on a literature review. From a qualitative analysis on the matter, the paper concludes that size is not an important factor for the motivations to establish coopetition since ports are mainly aimed at achieving a win–win situation. Other factors, such as similarities in the services offered and competition level, look more influential. Nevertheless, the size difference among the ports seems to have an impact on the choice of the type of coopetition and on the willingness of the ports to adopt this strategy. Finally, the paper indicates that it is beneficial for all the ports to investigate the use of coopetition as a way of expanding the network of logistics services.